RCMS: Research Careers for Minority Scholars-Graduate Dual Degree Program.

路易斯安那州泽维尔大学和新奥尔良大学提议为少数族裔学者建立一个研究职业项目，目的是招募有前途的高中毕业生和目前入学的学生，他们将致力于攻读科学或工程研究生课程。该计划将确定选定的学生，并为他们提供本科和研究生教学和研究顾问，帮助他们获得暑期研究实习机会，并提供足够数量的经济援助，以促进学生的成功。该项目的独特之处在于在泽维尔大学（本科学位）和新奥尔良大学（研究生学位）之间发展研究生双学位（理学学士和理学硕士），包括化学、计算机科学、数学、物理和工程。那些追求工程事业的学生将获得新奥尔良大学的理学学士学位和理学硕士学位。从结构上讲，这个项目的独特之处在于它不仅能够为学生提供获得本科和研究生学位的机会，而且在比传统方法减少一年的时间框架内。在数字上，我们预计这个提议的项目最终将在全国范围内增加大约20%的科学博士候选人。美国国家科学基金会为该项目申请的金额为2,363,08美元，即每位获得化学、计算机科学、数学、物理或工程学士和硕士学位的学生每年仅10,503美元。大学费用分摊额另外定为776,168美元。

Xavier University of Louisiana and the University of New Orleans propose to establish a Research Careers for Minority Scholars program for the purpose of recruiting promising high school graduates and currently enrolled students who will commit to pursuing graduate study in science or engineering. The proposed program will identify selected students and provide them with undergraduate and graduate teaching and research advisors, help in obtaining summer research internships, and financial aid in sufficient quantity so as to facilitate student success. The unique feature of the proposed project is the development of a Graduate Dual Degree (Bachelor of Science and Master of Science) arrangement between Xavier University (for undergraduate degrees) and the University of New Orleans (for graduate degrees) in chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, and engineering. Those students pursuing engineering careers will receive both the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree from the University of New Orleans. Structurally, this program is unique not only in its ability to provide students an opportunity to obtain an undergraduate and a graduate degree, but also, in a time frame which is reduced by one year from the traditional approach. Numerically, we expect this proposed project ultimately to increase the minority pool of doctoral candidates in the sciences by approximately 20% on a nation-wide basis. The amount requested from the National Science Foundation for this project is $2,363,08 or only $10,503 per year per student to obtain a Bachelors and Masters Degree in either Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics Physics, or Engineering. University cost sharing is set at an additional $776,168.